# Staff Software Engineer

**Company:** [Bamboo Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/bamboo-health)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, JavaScript, React, Redux, Kafka, MySQL, Elasticsearch, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, SQL, Orm
**Posted:** 2026-05-15

> Staff Software Engineer building and scaling healthcare web applications. Lead complex features, mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and improve system reliability in a fully remote environment.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Partner with engineering leadership to define and uphold high standards for system design, code quality, performance, scalability, and security across the team.
- Collaborate closely with product and cross-functional stakeholders to shape requirements, align on priorities, and deliver solutions that meet customer and business needs.
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact features and systems, from concept through production.
- Own and continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of existing systems, proactively identifying and addressing bottlenecks and risks.
- Mentor engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, and fostering best practices, elevating the overall capability of the team.
- Influence architectural decisions across multiple services or teams, ensuring alignment with long-term platform strategy.
- Improve system observability through metrics, logging, alerting, and incident learnings.
- Explore opportunities to enhance workflows through AI or automation tools (e.g., document summarization, task routing, or data parsing).
- Stay curious about emerging AI tools and how they can streamline or enhance work within your function.

## What You Need
- BS in Computer Science, a relevant field of study, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of Java or similar object-oriented development.
- Relational database design and query, using both SQL and ORM.
- Experience with AWS or other public cloud environments.
- Modern Java frameworks (Spring Boot) preferred.
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems in production environments.
- Comfort using or learning AI-supported tools (e.g., ChatGPT, CoPilot, or role-specific tools) to improve daily workflows.
- A forward-thinking, curious mindset with an openness to experimenting with new technologies.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with sound judgment and creativity in designing solutions.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly evolving environments.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote-first environment.
- The ability to travel periodically for work.

## Technology We Use
- Modern Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Spring Boot, React/Redux
- Services communicating using Kafka and REST APIs
- MySQL relational databases
- ElasticSearch and other document-oriented databases
- AWS cloud environment
- Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform for deployment

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